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Simon Rae @simonrae.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Excellent quote… ”Every day, Computers are making people easier to use” Dave Karpf From Friday 26th September Memex 1.1, John Naughton's substack open.substack.com/pub/johnnaug... #LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social

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Simon Rae @simonrae.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

If you haven’t already please VOTE. (This only applies to the UK which is currently in the grip of Council Elections.) (I’m not advocating that you vote for any specific party, that’s up to you, but I’m just keen on there being as large a turnout as possible.)

Poster with the word VOTE in different colours arranged down the poster.

You’re saying that now…

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Honesty Fairness Clarity Transparency Enjoyment Inquisitiveness Inclusiveness … CHIEFIT? - managerial THEFICI… FETICHI - sounds like an Italian cheese, that’s good, could get an EU grant… 🙂 #LTHEchat

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#LTHEchat Thanks Sally and Phil, that was fun… hope you got lots of pointers for your next book!

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A6 #LTHEchat AI, or the fallout from AI AI isn’t being developed to help learning & teaching, it’s for business & the military. Education will be picking up the bits that it thinks can help. Some educators see the Business benefits, some the Conflict benefits, not all will see pedagogic benefits

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A5 #LTHEchat Apart from loads a’money you mean? Well, going back to my A1… A magic BS detector that could sort out those doing things for the benefit of the students from those doing things for their benefit.

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A4 #LTHEchat Number of foreign students has fluctuated… many reasons: Covid, changes in government policy wrt visas etc etc Whether this ever affected teaching or assessment policy I’m not sure…

A3 #LTHEchat Retired and out of it all now… But I cynically expect that going online will have enabled a fair amount of enshittification to take place. It can be a transformative change, but there will always be a way to mess it up for people.

A2 #LTHEchat For most HE in the last 5 years it’s being forced online (an unexpected benefit of Covid ?)… For the OU in the last 25 years it was getting to grips with working online… So many benefits for both groups in going online in teaching and in learning and, when handled well, in assessment

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Simon Rae @simonrae.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

A1 #LTHEchat Honesty Fairness Clarity Transparency Enjoyment Inquisitiveness Inclusiveness …

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Completion… missing l stolen by spelll checker 🙁

Simon Rae @simonrae.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

In the interest of competition… could you display the portrait of Sophie? Please.

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Simon Rae @simonrae.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Magic pink underpainting of those clouds… #Art #Sunset

Photo taken through the window of the sunset… the gold, the pink, the trees… beautiful!

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Simon Rae @simonrae.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

At that age (OK, 60 years ago) I remember avidly reading the historical fantasy novels by Henry Treece and Geoffrey Trease, 2 English authors who between them wrote a LOT of books, some still available on Amazon Covered a lot of history… Vikings, Romans, Crusades, Romanian revolution I loved them

Simon Rae @simonrae.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

A5 #LTHEchat An AI moderator that would sit within the VLE/chatroom and automatically do things like respond intelligently to student’s posts, keep discussions going, feed in new ideas, chivvy people to take part… also do Tests and Feedback and Marking (with tutor oversight obviously!)

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Simon Rae @simonrae.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

A2 #LTHEchat Would presume tools provided for use by students in their studies, ie the VLE if that still a thing, is worth knowing all about… Tools for lesson development or research use would hope institution would provide (wishful thinking?) Investment…? As much as it takes to solve my problems.

Simon Rae @simonrae.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

A1 #LTHEchat So, so many…! But I was using back in the ‘70s. SNOBOL was one I loved. More recently I was sorry when NUDIST died and was resurrected as NVivo. Several others at that time: CONC for concatenation and text analysis sadly missed. And SPSS just got SO big…

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Simon Rae @simonrae.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

#inmotion The coach has left the Coach House where it sleeps and is currently bowling down the High Street to the pub… #PrintPromptMonday - OK, I know it’s Tuesday but I overslept!

Black and white Lino print of the Coach House, a small residence with a central front door at ground level with a hay entrance above and a wide entrance for the coach on the right. A weathervane sits on the peak of the roof and trees boarder both sides of the house. Underneath the house is a legend that reads COACH HOUSE.

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Simon Rae @simonrae.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

working in #Galleries, #Libraries, #Archives, or #Museums Call for abstracts: Citizen Science: Theory and Practice Journal Special Collection “Lessons, Challenges, and Opportunities in Participatory Science from a GLAM Perspective.” Submissions via: forms.gle/tZmaSEPixgAU... Deadline: Feb 28th

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Simon Rae @simonrae.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

#RIP Bruce Lacey Top chap - miss him. #Artist en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_L... en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?... www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... camdenartcentre.org/whats-on/the... www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/... www.trunkrecords.com/releases/bru... youtu.be/vNa5L8Yd31A?...

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Bruce Lacey - Wikipedia

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Simon Rae @simonrae.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band

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Simon Rae @simonrae.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I could contain my jealousy until you panned around to the huge Chicago Press (what I knew as an Albion press because we had one at school) - oh to pull some prints on that! At school we were very influenced by the work and prints of Michael Rothenstein - if you can ink it you can print it!

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Simon Rae @simonrae.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Great sketch… you found the colours!

Simon Rae @simonrae.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

What! And How? Super looking paper, so rich, heavy, thick and meaty… What do you use for pulp? And colours? Or is that natural? I'm going to try fallen leaves in the Autumn, hoping to get different textures and colours from different trees… (Just in time for seasonal cards!)

Simon Rae @simonrae.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Two naive black and white prints… #PrintPromptMonday #IntotheWild The Gate leading out, and Big Trees.

A black and white wood panel print showing a five-bar farm gate between two gate posts flanked by hedgerows.

A black and white Lino print showing three big tree shapes growing from a verdant undergrowth.

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Simon Rae @simonrae.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

OK, #AI question… These #LLM based GenAI apps are ‘trained’ on a huge amount of #data But what data exactly? Like all of the Gutenberg Project or Google Books…? Sounds a bit WASP to me. And what about copyright? Are these things trained on data that is mainly ‘western’? Help please… #LTHEchat

Simon Rae @simonrae.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Listening to this late… I'm going to have nightmares Assessment - Forget free will, the generative AI will have decided it all for you, all we need to do is press the button. (PS - did you know all our student data has been given to the machine?) #LTHEchat #AI www.linkedin.com/posts/helen-...

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Helen Beetham on LinkedIn: I'm delighted to bring you an Imperfect Offering x Second Breakfast…

I'm delighted to bring you an Imperfect Offering x Second Breakfast podcast, talking Trump, cybernetics and generative AI with the original and unbeaten tech…

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Simon Rae @simonrae.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Skim it… As lots have said… some interesting exercises to loosen the mind and hand(s). I guess why musicians still practice their scales and runs. And occasionally ‘see’ or ‘hear’ something different (cf don’t draw the branches of the tree, draw the spaces between the branches).

Simon Rae @simonrae.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Jean Tinguely… www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... I wonder what a collaboration between Jean Tinguely and Nick Park would have generated…?

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Daniel Soar · On Jean Tinguely

This is what’s weird about Tinguely: what should be forbidding and abstract – mechanised geometries, industrial...

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Simon Rae @simonrae.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Perhaps a bit more needed… WI-FI is a must these days and Power/Energy to run everything - which inevitably drags in Infrastructure and Contracts etc Mind you, if we could all achieve Digital Wellbeing it would help! (@lthechat.bsky.social Helen Beetham)

A modified Maslow’s Triangle.
Starting from the top:
Digital Wellbeing;
Self Actualization;
Self Esteem;
L❤️ve;
Safety;
Phisiological …?*!!!;
WIFI;
POWER
Infrastructure, Contracts,
Green, Ecological, Profit;
GAIA.

This was done very quickly on an iPad in response to a question during a weekly #LTHEchat session on the need for Digital Wellbeing in HE.

It certainly should be… but can we honestly say that it always is?

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Yes… thank you all. Got me thinking. Isn’t your student’s failure in assessments not just their failure on the course but also your failure to teach them? Maximise your teaching success by making the assessment fit the student and help them to pass. #LTHEchat

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Hey… who knew? I’ve got some of this around my front door, it works a treat. I think I’ve still got some rolled up in the garage just in case I get a new door somewhere sometime. Can’t remember where I got it… had it for years. Lovely stuff.

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"Diversity = students see/read about/learn from people like them." Isn't that the problem though. UK HE up till the end of the 1900s was for white males (mostly) who saw themselves. Diversity surely means Difference. Staff now need to acknowledge/understand/accommodate difference. #LTHEchat A1

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A1 #LTHEchat Expectations… What the student expects to happen may not happen, what they expect to have to do may not be the case. What the lecturers expect of their students may not be what the students expect to give. And sometimes the mismatches are so subtle, but ultimately disabling.

Visited a small museum in Valadon’s birthplace near #Limoges some years back… en.visitlimousin.com/stay/leisure... #WomensArt

Photo taken in Musée Espace Valadon (https://en.visitlimousin.com/stay/leisure-activities-and-facilities/cultural-activities-in-limousin/musee-espace-valadon-bessines-sur-gartempe-en-4130865/) in 2019 showing a view of a studio space in homage to Suzanne Valadon in her birthplace near Limoges.

At the top left is a painted canvas of a female nude sitting on a white cushion. On the right is a canvas on a fabulous curly easel showing a portrait head of a woman. At the bottom is a wooden print rack with some prints and sheets of drawings stacked in it. The floor is tiled in plain pottery tiles. The walls are white. A bedspread is pinned to the wall behind a red stuffed settee. Several blank canvases and an easel are propped up against the wall.

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Simon Rae @simonrae.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Call for Papers Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal Special Issue on Craftwork within the Digital Guest Editors: Christina Corfield & Whitney Trettien online.ucpress.edu/DocumentLibr... #WomenInArt

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This weekend I came across Hannah Ryggen (1894-1970), a truly astonishing textile #artist from Norway. nkim.no/en/hannah-ry... Her work was considered so offensive in 1937 that it was #censored. #WomensArt See also: theconversation.com/reading-pica... @theconversation.com

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Well… that was fun! Thanks everyone.

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A6 #LTHEchat Students can assess whether they learned anything Staff can assess whether students learned (1) what the staff think they should have (2) what the students think they should have and staff can assess if they have learned anything…

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A2 #LTHEchat Doesn’t this limit its use to lessons where there is no ‘right’ answer… surely there are cases where there are right and wrong answers, can one use playful learning here?

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